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Life Quotes
"I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. At any moment you may be strolling peacefully along, and all the time Life's waiting around the corner to fetch you one. You can't tell when you may be going to get it. It's all dashed puzzling. Here was poor old George, as well-meaning a fellow as every stepped, getting swatted all over the ring by the hand of Fate. Why? That's what I asked myself. Just Life, don't you know. That's all there was about it."
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"There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built."
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"If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart."
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"Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave."
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"He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it. He could never surmount his immeasurable regret. And that's why I tell you that Byring is right. Even though it only lasts five years, even though he ruins his career, even though this marriage ends in disaster, it will have been worth while. He will have been satisfied. He will have fulfilled himself."
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"You are unique. You have different talents and abilities. You don't have to always follow in the footsteps of others. And most important, you should always remind yourself that you don't have to do what everyone else is doing and have a responsibility to develop the talents you have been given."
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"The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul."
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"Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio."
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"Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena."
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"Anyone who tells you life has greater value when it comes with an expiration date is full of shit. Immortality is worth the fortunes of galaxies.She regarded him too intently. "But it's not worth everything. You gave it up for your freedom.His forced bravado faltered. That truth still petrified him today. "I did."
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"There should always be an end game, or else all you are doing is practicing for an opportunity for which you have no idea of what it is or what it will even look like."
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"By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life-and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world."
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"Society says "Don't talk about sex, just do it."
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"There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications."
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"To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could."
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"When there is destruction, hope for a great creations."
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"Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat."
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"Life always refused simplicity."
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"Life is a crazy mixture of intoxicating cocktails."
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"I thought I had lowered my standards pretty much, when I decided that any woman would be good for me as long as she respects me. It didn't took me long to realize that would never happen. I was being naive about the real state of the world. It's not that one shouldn't have low standards, or high, or medium, but that most people are such a disgusting representation of themselves, that they can't stop themselves being like this until they die. And maybe they do appreciate what they had when they lose it, but they quickly forget about it when getting it back. Forgiving people that apologize too often has been another naive behavior of mine."
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"LOOKINGThe world goes by, and what have I to do with it? I merely observe how the geese stretch their necks towards the orange rim of sky. I watch how light fades and children make their way home, hungry and tired. The bushes outside become ghosts while baths run and kitchen windows steam up with the cooking. This is the smell of our home, where I have a place in the wrinkled hours making beds and hugging boys awake. This is the sound of the house where I feel out lives into words, translate ragged nights and days into something whole, or try to. You may look if you wish..... The world goes by, and what have you or I to do with it, except perhaps for looking... ?"
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"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
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"And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not-they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note."
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"Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea."
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"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge."
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"One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'"
Life,
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"To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!"
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"Some choices will either make you perish or prosper, choose properly."
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"What I like most about children is that they are great advisors, yet they don't know it. And what I love about them is that they are vision bearers yet may not realize it."
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"Step into your track and begin your steps till you reach the end because life is a personal journey."
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"Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time.""Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly."
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"Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience."
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"In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong."
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